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University Daily Kansav Thursday, Jan. 15, 1953
Low Accident Rate Marks Contest End
This week marks the end of the traffic safety campaign and contest sponsored by the Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty company o Chicago.
Last year the Kansan took second place in the contest, whether we will win any prizes this year will not be known until some time in the Spring. What we do know, is that during the time of the contest, which coincided with the months of highest driving fatality, there were no student deaths on the highways.
There were six students hurt in accidents over the Thanksgiving holiday and none reported over the Christmas holiday. This accidentless Christmas holiday is almost unique in University history.
We who worked on the safety campaign would like to think that the low rate of accidents was due in part to our readers taking the editorials, feature stories, and pictures to heart.
Now that the contest is over and less stress will be put on safety by the Daily Kansan, don't become less safety minded.
If you try to make it home between semesters, try to remember the driving hints that have appeared in the Kansan. No matter what the season of the year some facts are always true; most accidents in Douglas county have occurred due to passing on hills and curves; high speeds save about five minutes an hour and lose lives, and the only cure for tiredness at the wheel is sleep.
If you go home between semesters, let's not start the new semester with too loud a bang. When you go home, try to
Return a Student—Not a Statistic.
—Don Moser
Regent Housing Talks May Be Positive Step
The long awaited meeting between the board of regents and the ASC housing committee is being held today in Topeka. It is sincerely hoped that by this interview, a positive step will be taken in the direction of adequate dormitory facilities for all University students.
Each of the five committee members have helped to prepare reports on their three aspects of the housing situation. What has been published of these planned reports on the physical, the sociologies and psychological, and the monetary phases of the problem seer to present a fairly consistent and accurate picture of the situation
It is hoped that each report will be acceptable in accuracy and information, and that questions proposed will be answered to the satisfaction of the board of regents.
So far, the evidence shows that the committee should be commended for its continuous and diligent work on its proposed plan of action, especially when it would have been so easy to let such work slide over Christmas vacation.
Actual accomplishments and results of the committee's work have not yet made their appearance; but in the next few days and weeks some results should be forthcoming. This meeting with the board of regents is a good start. Mary Cooper.
The invitation from Uncle Joe to come-on-a-his house for a friendship toast of spiked vodkas was a right decent gesture. He may have been encouraged by the sudden common sense of bourgeois capitalists who finally "shot Santa Claus."
POGO
The housing committee ends its 17-week study and preparation program today when it presents its case to the Board of Regents in Topeka.
Rv ROGER YARRINGTON
In The Editor's Eye
We understand the committee had excellent plans for the presentation. A great deal of study and research was to have gone into the report. As it is, it seems either a lack of time or interest modified those plans quite a bit.
The regents should be fairly well informed by now that the housing situation here is somewhat of a problem and the subject of much criticism. The primary effect of the committee, as we see it, is to demonstrate the sincerity of the students in working for better housing. That function certainly would not be enhanced by a poorly prepared report.
We feel confident, however, that if the regents are given an intelligent presentation they will do their best to meet the needs.
WE NOTE THAT THE FACULTY is about to chose a beauty queen for a group of students.
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This campus queen business has provoked a great deal of thought here, and very pleasantly so, but we cannot help wondering when we consider the purpose of choosing queens and comparing that to the manner in which many are chosen.
We see a queen as a lovely girl chosen to stand in the middle of a football field or dance floor and look pretty for the rest of the students. What then is the sense of queens being chosen by the faculty or on the basis of achievement, scholarship, personality or other odd requirements too often used?
TEACHER EVALUATION sheets were distributed yesterday and seem a very good idea in that we know no teachers that have no room for improvement (students either as far as that goes).
The success of the project will depend on the seriousness with which the evaluations are read. The students doing the evaluation certainly seem to have tackled the job with a straight face.
The conditions of the evaluation present an opportunity for 100 per cent sincerity and we don't doubt that most of the sheets contain more honesty than a semester of apple polishing private talks.
by Dick Bible
THE MOST BREATHTAKING addition to the new Union building is the beautiful Kansas room located on the top floor.
The room faces out over the northwest corner of the building and has a large balcony that features the best view on Mount Oread.
Future parties held here will really be able to boast something "extra."
CAMPUS MUSICIANS are offering three evening programs this week.
Maybe they are trying to help the rest of us brace for a week of unwilling study before finals.
FACTS WANTS TO ORGANIZE the Greeks so that they can "break down the Greek-Independent split" at the political level.
It's a nice idea but it won't work.
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Little Man on Campus
"After all th' trouble I had in this house getting you a blind date, Worthal. I don't want to hear any remarks."
Ike Must Iron Out Sea-Air Power Dispute
The new president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, will have his problems with the military when he takes over the government next week. Basically, the trouble will be over just who should do what.
Unification of the armed forces has worked reasonably well in every phase of military operations except in the high commands.
The disagreement is among the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or more specifically, between the Air Force and the Navy. This is an old argument which caused a sensational brawl in 1949, when construction of a giant carrier was stopped just after the keel was laid.
To understand this argument, it is necessary to understand the purposes for which the Air Force and the Navy are designed.
The Air Force has three duties-defensive, offensive, and tactical. The defensive is contained in the fighter-interceptor commands, which must be prepared to stave off any attackers from any area included in our protective circle by our foreign policy.
Into the middle of this new outbreak of an old argument comes Mr. Eisenhower, who will have the final word on who does what.
The offensive potential is provided by the Strategic Air command, whose job it is to attack the industry and transportation of our enemy.
The Air Force also must provide a tactical command, which provides air support for troops on the ground.
The Navy's job is also threefold. It must protect the shipping lanes over which our commerce and supplies move, and it must provide an attacking force capable of great mobility and the capacity to assume superiority over any given area for any specified length of time.
All of the joint chiefs agree that these things are necessary. But with cries of economy echoing through the land, and the amount of money available limited, they cannot agree which is more necessary. The argument is over how the tax dollar should be cut.
Combined with the Marine Air' arm, it must be able to provide tactical air commands capable of backing up amphibious operations.
But whichever way he leans, the other side is going to scream and we may look forward to some rich language from the Pentagon in the near future. —Dean Evans.
The museum of natural history has purchased a plastics press to be used for making artificial leaves, flowers, and other accessories for habitat scenes.
The Jay James will set up a date bureau in the Union to pair off couples for the annual Vice Versa dance to be held Feb. 7, in the Military Science building.
Parking regulations will be enforced only along Jayhawk drive from the end of final week until the start of the new semester, the parking committee decided.
JANUARY 15
"Too much literature today is in the form of clever merchandising," Norman Cousins said yesterday in
5 Years Ago
10 Years Ago
the first of two lectures being sponsored by the Forum Board. Mr Cousins is editor of the Saturday Review of Literature.
Industrial Camouflage will be offered again next semester by the department of design. The course which consists of lecture, demonstration, laboratory, and field work will be open to anyone interested.
25 Years Ago
With the exception of the first tenor and the accompanists, the contest squad of the men's glee club for 1928 has been selected, according to Prof. T. A. Larremore director.
The advanced students' recita will be given tonight in the new auditorium.
Nearly 300 students have been to the University Student hospital and dispensary since the opening of school and more than 7,000 have been made to the hospital dispensary.